November 23, 2018November 25, 2018Assignments, Philosophy of Teaching What makes a meaningful assignment? I’ve been talking a lot about reducing the picky and endless details of the assignments in order to get the students to […]
November 22, 2018November 23, 2018Assignments How far out can I push my students? Out into the world that is. This is a class in public speaking and so I’m taking the “Public” part seriously. One […]
November 8, 2018December 6, 2018Assignments The Only-in-New-York Assignment OK, so the commute is horrible and keeps getting worse with the increasing subway crowds and rent is ridiculous. But this city […]
October 25, 2018Assignments The First Speech How did students do on their first speech? The short of it is: I’m pleased. The vast majority of the students did […]
October 5, 2018November 25, 2018Assignments, Grading Less Grading, Better Student Performance I’m grading less in two ways: number of assignments and number of evaluative categories. Remember, this is the basic public speaking class. […]
September 22, 2018November 23, 2018Assignments The Sixth Assignment This refers to the “come up with your own assignment and I have to ok it” option. This assignment is the epitome […]